Full-time: The Strongest Sniper

The atmosphere in Happy's training room was tense today. Apart from Ye Xiu, Xiao Nai, Zhang Jiale, and Wei Chen, everyone else was engrossed in their training.

"Um... Lao Zhang, do you think Lao Ye and Xiao Nai went a bit too far? I feel like the kids are quite shaken up." Wei Chen said to Zhang Jiale beside him.

“I think it’s a good idea. It’s better to expose some things now than to wait until the competition. And haven’t you noticed? Xiao Tang, Jingjing, Mo Fan, and Baozi, ever since they discovered they had a decent win rate in those practice matches against the three teams, they’ve all gotten a bit cocky. It’s better to suffer a defeat now than to have that happen during the actual competition,” Zhang Jiale said.

That's right, the gloomy atmosphere in Happy's training room was caused by Xiao Nai and Ye Xiu.

After Mu Cheng and Tao Xuan returned yesterday, Xiao Nai received a message from Xiao Shiqin asking them to fulfill their previous promise about team PvP. After all, Xiao Shiqin wanted to dispel the fear that the members of Excellent Era had of Ye Xiu, and coincidentally, Xiao Nai and Ye Xiu also noticed that their teammates' mentality had become a bit frivolous lately.

The main reason for this outcome was Xiao Nai's fault, since he was the one who organized the three teams to practice with the players. But it was just practice, not a real match. While the players from the three teams took it seriously, it wasn't at the level of a competitive game. Later in that training session, Tang Rou and the others even achieved a near 50/50 win rate, which made them a little overconfident. After all, this wasn't even the offline finals, and they could already go toe-to-toe with champion team players; wouldn't facing Excellent Era in the future be a piece of cake?
Xiao Nai and the others noticed the somewhat frivolous mentality of the Happy team. Just then, Xiao Shiqin came to challenge them to a PK, and Xiao Nai agreed without hesitation. So this morning, Ye Xiu led Qiao Jingjing, Tang Rou, Baozi, An Wenyi, and Mo Fan to face off against the Excellent Era team.

The result was predictable. Not to mention that even if the individual skills of the Happy team members reached the professional level, they would still be at a relatively low level. Moreover, the drawbacks of team competition and the lack of coordination were exposed to the fullest extent.

Team Happy was utterly crushed by Team Excellent Era. This defeat even cured Ye Xiu's PTSD, which shows just how badly Team Happy was defeated.

As observers for the match, Xiao Nai and Zhang Jiale had already recorded all of Happy's mistakes and errors in previous matches. After all, that was their main purpose in initiating this battle.

This match proved necessary for both Happy and Excellent Era. Xiao Shiqin could now clearly sense that Ye Xiu's influence on Excellent Era had diminished, but he was actually more vigilant. After all, neither Xiao Nai nor Zhang Jiale, two top-tier players, had played this time, yet they still had a tough time. However, since the Excellent Era team had just escaped Ye Qiu's shadow, he couldn't say anything at this point.

Meanwhile, the competition also revealed the shortcomings of each member of Team Happy as well as some minor individual issues.

Tang Rou and Qiao Jingjing tend to be too focused in team matches—yes, too focused. They concentrate all their attention on their opponents. This is fine in individual matches, and even an advantage, but it's detrimental in team matches because it easily leads to them becoming disconnected from the team. They are easily distracted by the opponent's attacks.

Mo Fan's situation is relatively simple. He can't keep up with the teamwork. After all, professional team competitions have much stricter requirements for teamwork than dungeons. Mistakes in dungeons can be remedied, but mistakes in team competitions are not so easy to fix. If you don't pay a price, how can the other side let you leave easily?

However, at least the shortcomings of the three of them can be addressed through training. After adjusting their daily training, they can be fine. The main problem is Baozi, which is giving Xiao Nai a headache. There's no way around it; Baozi's playing style is too casual. Sometimes he doesn't even know why he plays that way. Many times, his hands have already made the move before his mind has even thought of what to do. His playing style is all kinds of wild and unpredictable. This is Baozi's advantage, but it's a bit of a problem in team competitions.

In the end, Xiao Nai could only ask him to practice teamwork with everyone more, just like Mo Fan, to increase their tacit understanding.

What comforted Xiao Nai was that the members of Team Happy were all very strong-willed. One defeat didn't affect them for long, and they quickly adjusted. They were really resilient. Tang Rou wasn't the type to be defeated easily, and Qiao Jingjing had seen everything over the years, so this couldn't affect her at all. Baozi was carefree by nature, and as for Mo Fan, this period was just his time of setbacks, and he had gotten used to it.

As for An Wenyi, who was undergoing treatment, he was acutely aware of his own shortcomings and frighteningly rational. Ironically, he was the fastest to adjust among the Happy team members. Of course, he also made the most mistakes in this failure, but there was nothing that could be done; An Wenyi's skill ceiling was limited, and there was no other way but to practice. An Wenyi understood this, and that's what he did. Xiao Nai and Ye Xiu didn't say much, as they had already said what needed to be said: there are no shortcuts, only repeated practice, and An Wenyi was already doing that, and working very hard.

It can be said that Happy gained a lot from this competition. In contrast to the low mood on Happy's side, the atmosphere on Excellent Era's side was very good. As soon as the competition ended, their team members went all over the Glory World to help their guild win dungeon records.

So the next day, the low pressure hit Excellent Era...

There was no way around it; after all, Xiao Nai and his team had Luo Ji, a game-breaking player. Relying on his superior skills, they created the ultimate dungeon strategies, completely dominating Team Happy in terms of records. And this series of records and win rates came at just the right time, letting Team Happy know that Team Excellent Era wasn't invincible, and that they couldn't even break their own dungeon records.

On this day, Honor's annual Christmas event, one of its major annual events, officially began.

Since its inception, Honor of Kings has held different Christmas events every year, but all event rewards are related to Christmas gifts. Of course, the top-tier gifts still require players to compete against each other.

This year's Christmas event theme is: stocking snatching.

Of course, socks are not gifts, but they are a vehicle for receiving gifts. Simply put, the more socks you get, the more gifts you can receive.

However, unlike last year when players directly fought monsters and collected gifts in the open world, this time the event is designed like an arena. Players need to accept a quest first, and then the system will automatically match players to the map.

Because the number of socks in each map is limited, players will be ranked according to the number of socks they receive in each round.

Fifty people, twenty socks. The higher your ranking, the more socks you grab and the bigger your reward.

With the release of the event details, players in Glory were once again in an uproar after the level 75 announcement! (End of Chapter)